My Research

I work since 1983 in Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Poland.

In years 1992-2000 I was the head of the Lidar Laboratory. Since January 2002, after returning from one year spent working in Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD (San Diego, CA), I have been the leader of Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory.

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Research topics:

• Lidar research:
  1. studies of marine aerosol with multifrequency lidar system (ship and shore experiments, theoretical work on the inverse lidar problem).
  2. surface chlorophyll measurements with a fluorescence lidar.
  3. studies on utilization of a lidar system for remote measurements of oil film thickness.
  
  
• Monte-Carlo modelling of in-water light-fields to:
  1. studies of instrumentation effects on measured values of radiation and irradiation.
  2. studies of the theory of measurement of inherent optical properties of sea water and its components.
  3. work on developing a spectral model of light energy utilization by various components of sea-water for remote sensing studies of the Baltic.
  
  
• Air-sea interaction
  1. studies of bubble clouds produced by breaking waves
  2. studies of mass, energy, momentum and radiation fluxes across the sea surface

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Scientific degrees:

• M.Sc., Experimental Physics, University of Gdansk, Poland, 1983.
• Ph.D., Earth Science (Atmospherics Physics), Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1992.
• D. Sc.(in Polish: doktor habilitowany), Earth Science, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, 2005.

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Languages:

Mother tongue: Polish

Other languages:

• English (read, understand spoken, speak, write)
• Russian (read, understand spoken, speak, write)
• German (read, understand spoken, speak)

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Major scientific conferences I attended:

• Aerospace and Remote Sensing, SPIE, April 14-16 1993, Orlando, Florida.
• High Latitude Optics, SPIE, June 28 - July 2 1993, Tromso, Norway.
• European Aerosol Conference, October 4-10 1993, Duisburg, Germany.
• Optical Engineering in Aerospace Sensing, SPIE, April 4-8 1994, Orlando, Florida.
• Ocean Optics XII, SPIE, June 13-15 1994, Bergen, Norway.
• Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal Environments, ERIM, March 17-19 1997, Orlando, Florida.
• 1998 Ocean Science Meeting, AGU, February 9-13 1998, San Diego, California.
• Ocean Optics XIV, November 10-13 1998, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
• Ocean Optics XV, October 16-20 2000, Monte-Carlo, Monaco.
• Ocean Optics XVI, November 18-22 2002, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
• Towards Universal Sea Spray Procuction Function, May 11-13, Skipton, UK

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Scholarchips and international experience:

• DAAD scholarship, 1991-92, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany.
• ONR Europe grant for a 1-month visit at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, San Diego, California, February 1998.
• Visiting Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, October 1998 - January 1999 (supported by grants from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Oregon State University) and January-March 2000 (supported by grants from Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
• Twice (February-December 2001 and September-December 2002) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD working on optical footprint of in-water bubble cloud (funded from an ONR HyCODE program grant)
• Two months (April-June 2003) at RSMAS, University of Miami modelling the response of turbulent in-water layers to a lidar remote sensing (running my Monte Carlo code on 9th and 56th world's most powerfuls computers - supercomputer ranking according to www.top500.org).

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Major oceanographic cruises and experiments:

• R.V. Oceania (Polish ship), The Arctic Seas (Spitsbergen Bank, Greenland Sea); light attenuation; three cruises in 1987, 1988 and 1989, 7-8 weeks each.
• R.V. Arnold Veimar (Estonian/Soviet ship), Baltic and North Sea; lidar research of chlorophyll distribution; 4 weeks, 1989.
• BAEX international experiment (EU funded); Baltic shore of Poland; lidar research of aerosol concentration; two experiments in 1983, 1984, 2 weeks each.
• EOPACE aerosol experiment; Duck, North Carolina; lidar research of aerosol concentration; 3 weeks, March 1999.
• More than 30 short (7-10 days) cruises within the Polish Economic Exclusion Zone in the southern Baltic, R.V. Oceania, 1986-1999; apparent and inherent optical properties of the sea, lidar research of chlorophyll concentration and surface oil pollution.

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A list of my Recent Papers

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Jacek Piskozub <piskozub@iopan.gda.pl>, Last updated: February 27, 2006